Archive - Our Long Walk

Research quality and ways to improve it

The bar will soon be much, much higher

Feb 27 • Johan Fourie

Why do we find it so hard to care about the rights of other people?

Bill Easterly on Violent Saviors, the “development right of conquest”, and why liberty cannot be a rounding error

Feb 24 • Johan Fourie

45:21

Imagining progress

South African art and the missing vision of betterment

Feb 23 • Johan Fourie

The – new – heavy plough

What Claude Code means for the future of work

Feb 20 • Johan Fourie

Rainbow Nation 2.0?

Lessons from the economics of nation-building

Feb 16 • Johan Fourie

Should you buy the dip?

Bitcoin, gold, and Economics 101

Feb 13 • Johan Fourie

Twenty years at Stellenbosch

How things have changed

Feb 9 • Johan Fourie

Three lessons from the 18th-century Cape

On non-neutral data, markets that are social, and inequality

Feb 6 • Johan Fourie

Are we suffering from a crisis of imagination?

SEASON 2, EPISODE 8: Xolela Mangcu on Mandela, Biko, the Bunga, and why South Africa needs a new politics of trust

Feb 3 • Johan Fourie

48:52

Newspapers that write history

And how a new South African entity can help us do so

Feb 2 • Johan Fourie

January 2026

Who Was The Perfect Soldier?

Chapter 23 of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom

Jan 30 • Johan Fourie

One of the oldest Cape traditions

Jan 26 • Johan Fourie

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